Tortured Quotes
268 quotes by 234 authors
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The stress that they're under is absolutely extreme. Indefinite detention. Not knowing when you're going to get out. The threat of being sent back to…
— Unknown Author
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If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed ot tortured, then you shouldn't condone such behaviour towards anyone, be they human or not.
— Unknown Author
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Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.
— Albert Camus
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As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not!…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W.…
— David Foster Wallace
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We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.
— Oscar Romero
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Who knows if the one whose hands are bloodied with Father Grande's murder, or the one who shot Father Navarro, if those who have killed,…
— Oscar Romero
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Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and birds have either fled or…
— Peter Cundall
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The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and…
— Mark Twain
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Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each…
— Arundhati Roy
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There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.
— Robert Rauschenberg
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Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or anything that involved…
— Marian Keyes
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with…
— Adrienne Rich
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And I know one thing more - that the Europe of the future cannot exist without commemorating all those, regardless of their nationality, who were…
— Unknown Author
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If I find out I have to write today and nothing else, that’s a perfect day. I know a lot of people who are great…
— Joss Whedon
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Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why so…
— Anton Yelchin
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It's time to sort of get back to a basic message, the message that was given. At this time, the world has gone nuts, I…
— Mel Gibson
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It's much simpler to be tortured on camera or to be filmed losing your mind. Whereas a script that has characters who are honest, witty…
— Ellen Page
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Many gamblers think they're being singled out by fate as a target for cruel jokes. They feel they alone in all the universe are being…
— Mike Caro
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When I was younger and more tortured, I wanted to suffer in my roles.
— Julia Duffy
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